Dykes v. Widdows

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• coercion resulted where the court was aware of the vote and the jury reached a verdict 15 minutes after the deadlocked jury instruction
• “The setting in which the instruction was given here compromised the instruction’s neutrality.”
• declining to adopt such an absolute rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).